It’s not always that we (atleast
this blogger) appreciate the efforts of some of the corporates. With market driven
world and neoliberal excitement constantly degrades everything that is valued, simultaneously
encouraging uncouths who grab the mainstream narrations to inject puss as
marker of success. While the space gets
reduced and market gangrene spreads there are some refreshing, indeed
surprising, happening that gladdens. I was at NatureInFocus seminar in Bangalore
the other day, and this fellow gave a talk on how TVS (at Hosur) has taken some
amazing steps towards conservation. They have made mandatory to demarcate atleast
30% of the hub as forest, and by forest it isn’t about some british conceived manicured
sick gardens, these are wild spaces that actively seek to not only conserve biodiversity
but also spread awareness. Even the security guards have been sensitised on how
to handle reptiles and so on. It is hoped that in cities too people in housing
colonies and 'gated communities' asks for these and insist on spaces that is left for wilderness and also include birdnests
so on into buildings that propagates the essentialities of sharing rather than occupying.
